Hey Lisa...<br><br>Happy to talk more about this. My experience with universities has included work with the University of BC working with the coordinator of health sciences, bringing 30 people from across the health spectrum together to form a new College of Health Sciences. The current director, who sponsored that event, said to me a couple of months ago that the OST was the key event in catalyzing the new college.
<br><br>Also I have worked with the First Nations House of Learning which houses some First Nations programs and provides a home for First Nations students and researchers at UBC doing some strategic planning between them, their internal and external partners and graduates regarding strengthening the role of the organization.
<br><br>Did another one with the office of access and diversity on, well, access and diversity issues on campus. <br><br>This spring I opened space for the new Dalai Lama Centre in Vancouver on the question of how the community will support the Centre and vice versa. Although not an academic centre per se, it is championed by academics (focusing on educating the heart) and the vision is held by several UBC folks, There were many academics at the event.
<br><br>And just a couple of weeks ago I did an Open Space with all of the HR practitioners at UBC to create a network. They were thrilled with the work they did, having never really talked to one another.<br><br>I have had several UBC folks in Open Space traiing I have done over the years, all from HR, or continuing education.
<br><br>Happy to talk more. My experience is that there is no difference between academics and othergroups in Open Space, but often the academics will insist there is. This is evidenced a little in your question, where they often want to know that this will work with academics before committing to it. In my experience, the usual answers apply: the more diversity, complexity, urgency and passion, the better it works.
<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lisa Heft</b> <<a href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net">lisaheft@openingspace.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I am talking with the business school at a
university about using OS for a large networking event, to bring together
students at all levels of the business program (from folks very new to the
program to those with advanced business degrees; from executives who have
graduated from the program to current students) and also members of other
schools at the university (engineering, energy, and other diverse programs).</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">My potential client is interested in hearing
if any of you out there have done OS on university campuses and / or with these
different constituents.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">He's great, because he 'gets'
that OS can work with anyone. But / and he's thrilled that I am
part of this rich global community of practitioners and would love to hear
other stories of how OS has been used in similar ways or similar settings –
what was the situation, who were the constituents, and what were the accomplishments.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thank you for sharing your stories of OS in
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<p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lisa</span></font></p>
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